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Ottawa's 2018 Ranking: 38 of 83 Counties

Ottawa County Source: Michigan State Police, Michigan Incident Crime Reporting

Explanation of the Indicator:

Crime rates can affect citizens' sense of security, as well as influence business investment and residential development. Violent crime includes the following four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Notes

In some cases, County-level data are not available from the same data source used by the State. In other cases, County-level data are not available for the same time frame used by the State. In these instances, data sources and time frames were selected that most closely match those of the State. Due to this difference, it must be noted that comparisons may not be completely equivalent in all cases. Ottawa County data were obtained from the Michigan State Police because county-level data are not available for each year between 2005 and 2018 from the FBI. Michigan's data source is the FBI, Uniform Crime Reports. When this page was last updated in August 2019, 2016 data was the most recent data available for Michigan, and 2018 data was the most recent data available for Ottawa County. State of Michigan dashboard measures were last updated in December 2018 prior to the change in administration. Plans for future data updates from the new administration have not been communicated as of yet.
Violent Crime
Rate is increasing
negative
Property Crime
Rate is decreasing
declined
Traffic Incidents
Rate is decreasing
improved